Ubuntu: 4210-1 Critical: Kernel Denial Of Service Risks

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December 2, 2019

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Summary

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel.

Software Description:

- linux: Linux kernel

- linux-aws: Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems

- linux-gke-4.15: Linux kernel for Google Container Engine (GKE) systems

- linux-kvm: Linux kernel for cloud environments

- linux-oem: Linux kernel for OEM processors- linux-oracle: Linux kernel for Oracle Cloud systems

- linux-raspi2: Linux kernel for Raspberry Pi 2

- linux-snapdragon: Linux kernel for Snapdragon processors- linux-aws-hwe: Linux kernel for Amazon Web Services (AWS-HWE) systems

- linux-gcp: Linux kernel for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) systems

- linux-hwe: Linux hardware enablement (HWE) kernel

Details:

It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the 802.11 Wi-Fi

configuration interface for the Linux kernel when handling beacon settings.

A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash)

or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2019-16746)

Nicolas Waisman discovered th...

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service buffer overflow Ubuntu kernel system update memory exhaustion

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
  linux-image-4.15.0-1030-oracle  4.15.0-1030.33
  linux-image-4.15.0-1049-gke     4.15.0-1049.52
  linux-image-4.15.0-1051-kvm     4.15.0-1051.51
  linux-image-4.15.0-1052-raspi2  4.15.0-1052.56
  linux-image-4.15.0-1056-aws     4.15.0-1056.58
  linux-image-4.15.0-1065-oem     4.15.0-1065.75
  linux-image-4.15.0-1069-snapdragon  4.15.0-1069.76
  linux-image-4.15.0-72-generic   4.15.0-72.81
  linux-image-4.15.0-72-generic-lpae  4.15.0-72.81
  linux-image-4.15.0-72-lowlatency  4.15.0-72.81
  linux-image-aws                 4.15.0.1056.57
  linux-image-aws-lts-18.04       4.15.0.1056.57
  linux-image-generic             4.15.0.72.74
  linux-image-generic-lpae        4.15.0.72.74
  linux-image-gke                 4.15.0.1049.52
  linux-image-gke-4.15            4.15.0.1049.52
  linux-image-kvm                 4.15.0.1051.51
  linux-image-lowlatency          4.15.0.72.74
  linux-image-oem                 4.15.0.1065.69
  linux-image-oracle              4.15.0.1030.35
  linux-image-oracle-lts-18.04    4.15.0.1030.35
  linux-image-powerpc-e500mc      4.15.0.72.74
  linux-image-powerpc-smp         4.15.0.72.74
  linux-image-powerpc64-emb       4.15.0.72.74
  linux-image-powerpc64-smp       4.15.0.72.74
  linux-image-raspi2              4.15.0.1052.50
  linux-image-snapdragon          4.15.0.1069.72
  linux-image-virtual             4.15.0.72.74

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
  linux-image-4.15.0-1030-oracle  4.15.0-1030.33~16.04.1
  linux-image-4.15.0-1050-gcp     4.15.0-1050.53
  linux-image-4.15.0-1056-aws     4.15.0-1056.58~16.04.1
  linux-image-4.15.0-72-generic   4.15.0-72.81~16.04.1
  linux-image-4.15.0-72-generic-lpae  4.15.0-72.81~16.04.1
  linux-image-4.15.0-72-lowlatency  4.15.0-72.81~16.04.1
  linux-image-aws-hwe             4.15.0.1056.56
  linux-image-gcp                 4.15.0.1050.64
  linux-image-generic-hwe-16.04   4.15.0.72.92
  linux-image-generic-lpae-hwe-16.04  4.15.0.72.92
  linux-image-gke                 4.15.0.1050.64
  linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-16.04  4.15.0.72.92
  linux-image-oem                 4.15.0.72.92
  linux-image-oracle              4.15.0.1030.23
  linux-image-virtual-hwe-16.04   4.15.0.72.92

After a standard system update you need to reboot your computer to make
all the necessary changes.

ATTENTION: Due to an unavoidable ABI change the kernel updates have
been given a new version number, which requires you to recompile and
reinstall all third party kernel modules you might have installed.
Unless you manually uninstalled the standard kernel metapackages
(e.g. linux-generic, linux-generic-lts-RELEASE, linux-virtual,
linux-powerpc), a standard system upgrade will automatically perform
this as well.